I've made my first Frozen Synapse tutorial video. It would mean a lot to me if you would check it out and give me some feedback... video/audio quality, commentary, approach etc... I only want to get better at this :)

It's designed for new players, hoping to develop their game. I'm sure it's too basic for some of you FS veterans, but hopefully it will help some newbies.

The Frozen Synapse Tactics series, where we explore how to improve our game. The series will help you to understand unit limitations and opportunities, squad tactics, map strategies, cheap cheese (hey, all's fair in war), anticipating opponents and more.

First of all: Lower the volume on the intro or raise the volume of the rest of the video. It's a really common error among LP'ers to have the intro volume way, way up. You might want to change the theme music too, as it doesn't really fit the theme of the game.

I love your voice, though. You might want to speak a little "stronger." Sometimes you just trail off at the end of sentences, and it makes it a little more difficult to pick up the last words effortlessly. If you have access to a de-esser, you might want to reduce your S sounds, too.

It would be cool if you explained not only what actions you perform, but how you perform them too. "I will tell this guy to go here, by double clicking on this empty space" goes a long way to reinforce the controls for someone who's new to the game.

I would recommend that you prefer right clicking and setting up units through the UI before introducing keyboard commands. Yes, keyboard commands are more effective, but they provide less visual feedback in a video.

When you introduce continue on sight, you introduce the solution to a problem that does not yet exist in the viewers mind. First try conventional walking, say "See what happened there? Let's rewatch that." Use the pause button in the middle of the preview! "It seems like this guy caught sight of this enemy and is engaging him. I don't want my guy to do that, because my guy is at a disadvantage as long as he is moving." Then introduce CoS.

Same thing with walking+aiming as with CoS. You introduce a solution to an (as of yet) non-existent problem.

I believe you are generally under-using the preview feature. That might be intentional for the first lesson though, so I leave that decision up to you. You might very well be right in what you're doing there.

Overall, though, you put proper emphasis on the right things and this is a welcome introduction to the Frozen Synapse scene.